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First edition. |
| Description |
223 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Summary |
The illegitimate daughter of the late Senator Strom Thurmond breaks her lifelong silence. Her father, the longtime senator from South Carolina, was once the nation's leading voice for racial segregation; he mounted a filibuster against the Civil Rights Act of 1957 -- in the name of saving the South from "mongrelization." Her mother was Carrie Butler, a black teenager who worked as a maid on the Thurmond family's South Carolina plantation. The memoir reveals a brave young woman who struggled with the discrepancy between the father she knew -- financially generous, supportive of her education, even affectionate -- and the old Southern politician who refused to acknowledge their relationship in public. |
| Subject |
Thurmond, Strom, 1902-2003 -- Family.
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Washington-Williams, Essie Mae, 1925-2013.
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Thurmond, Strom, 1902-2003 -- Relations with women.
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Thurmond, Strom, 1902-2003 -- Relations with African Americans.
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Daughters -- United States -- Biography.
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Racially mixed people -- United States -- Biography.
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Legislators -- United States -- Family relationships -- Case studies.
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Southern States -- Race relations -- Case studies.
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| Added Author |
Stadiem, William.
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| ISBN |
0060760958 |
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